JiffyGriff

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  1. Hollywood movie called "awake"

    JiffyGriff replied to crna2bee's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm a little more proactive than that, I'd rather prevent something bad from happening in the first place than to let it happen and clean up the mess created, or just "deal with it." But we are each...

  2. Hollywood movie called "awake"

    JiffyGriff replied to crna2bee's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Aphorism - Literally, a distinction or definition, a term used to describe a principle expressed tersely in a few telling words or any general truth conveyed in a short and pithy sentence, in such a...

  3. Any Advice???

    JiffyGriff replied to Sunshine0425's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    Gonna prolly wanna take the BSN

  4. Hollywood movie called "awake"

    JiffyGriff replied to crna2bee's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    No kidding........until I took psych nursing, that movie was the only picture I ever had in my mind about ECT..........the movies can influence a

  5. Hollywood movie called "awake"

    JiffyGriff replied to crna2bee's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    How can you possibly think that bad publicity is good publicity?? Scaring the public about anesthesia is not the right way to get anesthesia into the picture. People who don't know anything about...

  6. CCU vs IMC

    JiffyGriff replied to EDGRADNURSE's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I don't know much about IMC or Progressive Care, but I work on a tele floor. Basically every patient we have is on tele with the exception of some overflow. We see a lot of CHF, a lot of pre-cardiac...

  7. Any Advice???

    JiffyGriff replied to Sunshine0425's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    It has to be fulltime experience though, not part time. I'm in the same dilemma, I grad. my ADN program this may and did get into an ICU, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to work 36 hours a week...

  8. Had to tell the manager...

    JiffyGriff replied to optimisticSRNA's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    That is serious BS!!! My nurse manager has known that I want to be a CRNA from ever since I got hired as an aide and she has done everything possible to help me succeed and help get me into the ICU...

  9. Hollywood movie called "awake"

    JiffyGriff replied to crna2bee's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    This is by far the funniest smile I've ever seen, It just has the perfect hint of sarcasm, especially when used in a perfectly played statement like was done above..........well done! This is...

  10. eICU: Useful or useless?

    JiffyGriff replied to robred's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    I attended the national student nurse association midyear career planning conference late 2005 and the nurse that was there to represent the AACN mentioned breifly during a panel seminar that they...

  11. CCU vs IMC

    JiffyGriff replied to EDGRADNURSE's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    What are you wanting to get out of working on a tele floor or step down unit before you go to ICU? I think that would be an appropriate question to ask........decide what you want to get out of it,...

  12. Atropine or Adrenaline

    JiffyGriff replied to tethys's topic in MICU, SICU

    Haven't had ACLS yet but I was thinking the same thing they were before I read their posts........sedate them to get them to stop biting that ET then everything should correct.........if it doesn't...

  13. BSN and RN

    JiffyGriff replied to souteneur3190's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    You edited while I was posting......... I grad. with ADN after 3 years this May, first year prereq's, next 2 years ADN program, then my BSN will take me another 1.5; I'm getting closer every...

  14. BSN and RN

    JiffyGriff replied to souteneur3190's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    A bachelor degree specific to nursing is not required, but a bachelor degree of some form or another is. You have to have a bachelor degree in something and be an RN. Personally I think they should...

  15. Right Ventricular Infarct question

    JiffyGriff replied to AZ_Ogre's topic in CCU, Coronary, Cardiac

    Easy way to think of preload: think of a rubber band, the further you stretch it the harder and faster it snaps back. So: if you increase preload you increase the pressure exerted on the right...

  16. Do patients/families that are hostile, rude affect your morale?

    JiffyGriff replied to smartynurse's topic in General Nursing

    Personally, I think the rude families are getting out of hand. I'm about to graduate here in May and I've been working as a nursing aid for about a year now. I've dealt with all kinds of them, the...

  17. Stethoscopes

    JiffyGriff replied to intothemoon's topic in MICU, SICU

    I heard that the ultrascopes were really nice, however the only one I've seen of someone's at work had the tubing all dried out and it was permanently shaped into a "U" and the peice for the earpeices...

  18. need your advice

    JiffyGriff replied to nicenurse911121's topic in Men in Nursing

    God has the ability to reason just like humans...........Just because the bible says one thing doesn't mean that god will hold true to it when you are getting your a$$ beat and your mind...

  19. Help!!! I am supposed to make a report for a doctor...

    JiffyGriff replied to maelstrom143's topic in MICU, SICU

    Don't forget your important lab values there are a lot of them here......if they are getting vit. K the dr. wants to know the PT and INR, equally you said you gave potassium, I would include the K+...

  20. ASA's response to Grey's Anatomy

    JiffyGriff replied to no-pain's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I find it very laughable that the ASA is feeling threatened by a mini-series on television.........I find it funny to point out the fallacies in medical shows but I've never found it threatening to a...

  21. what do you do?

    JiffyGriff replied to brithenurse's topic in MICU, SICU

    haha, I replied to the other one, apparently this one got posted on here

  22. interview questions

    JiffyGriff replied to brithenurse's topic in MICU, SICU

    They may have FORMED a clot, but they haven't THROWN it yet until they are exhibiting signs of pulmonary embolism.......which are what...?? Respiratory distress, decreased breath sounds on affected...

  23. Difference between Acute Care and ICU

    JiffyGriff replied to spb1's topic in MICU, SICU

    ICU is acute care........ difference is that ICU is a delineation of a unit and acute care is a delineation of a type of care. Many types of nursing are acute care such as: -Intensive Care/Critical...

  24. need your advice

    JiffyGriff replied to nicenurse911121's topic in Men in Nursing

    Congrats on distancing yourself from that........ If you think back to your education in nursing school and remember your psychiatry course, do you remember why abusive men are abusive?? You said...

  25. 21 Male persuing RN thinking about working as a CNA??

    JiffyGriff replied to MaleRNstudent21's topic in Men in Nursing

    It's probably one of the best things you can do if you are thinking about nursing school.......I'm 21 I work as a PCA on a tele floor..... Working as a nurse assistant can give you a pretty good jump...